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Brendan Healy is a theatre director and a past artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Healy discusses how Queer Liberation informs his artistry, and the importance of intergenerationality to Liberation. Healy urges us to think more…

Charlie Hill is a past curator of Canadian art at the National Gallery of Canada. While at the University of Toronto, he was the first president of the University of Toronto Homophile Association in 1969, and credits activists Jearld Moldenhauer…

Denis LeBlanc was queer and had been out since he was 20 at the University of Waterloo. LeBlanc was involved with Gays of Ottawa and credits it as having an impact on local, provincial, and national debates that were happening within the Queer…

Ed Jackson was a member of The Body Politic collective and one of the founders of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT). For Jackson, the Queer Liberation Movement wasn't solely about equality, but also about how people define gender roles and…

El-Farouk Khaki is the founder of Salaam, was the grand marshal in Pride Toronto, and has sat on numerous boards and committees. Khaki identifies as a queer, brown, Muslim immigrant, as well as a Canadian lawyer and advocate. He discusses the…

Farzana Doctor is a social worker, author, and activist whose work seeks to challenge the status quo and forward intersectionality through anti-oppressive practices. In this interview, Doctor discusses challenges to Pride, free speech, human…

Frank Folino trained as a political scientist, and is a queer Deaf leader and advocate, and has served as the vice president of the Canadian Association of the Deaf. Folino stresses the importance of rights and their identity at the intersections…

Gary Kinsman is a queer, social justice and anti-capitalist activist, and has done scholarly work around these issues. Kinsman has been involved with the radical and revolutionary left and became involved in the Gay Liberation Movement in the…

Gerald Hannon describes himself as a semi-retired activist and was deeply involved in the Gay Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. Hannon has been involved in the Queer Liberation Movement as a journalist, photographer, and through…

Gilles Marchildon is a francophone activist and was the executive director of Action Positive VIH/SIDA. Marchildon stresses the importance of diversity, and visibility for French queers in the Queer Liberation Movement. Interview conducted on…